President Donald Trump is expected to sign the historical executive command to name English, as the official language of the United States, confirmed on Friday to ABC news.
Applications marks the first time the country has ever had a language.
The executive order regains the Clinton-Aro mandate, with federal financing agencies and recipients to provide extensive language support to non-language speakers. Under the new request, agencies will have flexibility How to offer services in English-language languages, depending on the White House shared by this file with ABC news.
President Donald Trump participates in the press conference with the British Price Minister Keir Starmer (not depicted) in Washington, DC, February 27, 2025, February.
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White houses defends the action, saying, while hundreds of languages are spoken in the United States, English is the most commonly used. In addition, the White House maintains the establishment of national language that combines the country and citizens.
“The official language sets it as a union, establishes efficiency in government operations and creates the path of Civic Enchument,” White House wrote the tab given to ABC news.
There is still no light Trump when he expects to sign the executive order.
The movement comes between trumps Crusade to prevent government support for programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion. In the office, the President signed a correction of the federal agency to end “equity-related” grants or then sign the control command that federal contractors must be ensured.
The people of the US communicate in more than 350 languages, like Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese and Arabic, according to the most common languages in English, according to the data of the US Census.
A 2019 Census Office Report The number of people in the United States who spoke English at home almost from 1980 to 2019 – 23.1 million (about 10 million) to 67.8 million (about one in five). The reports also increased by English speakers, including 187.2 million and 1980 to 241 million in 2019.
